On Oct 16, 2006, at 11:42 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
> However, the deciding factor in people’s attitudes toward this form
> of settlement is not efficiency, functionality or aesthetic but
> “hard-wired” cognitive perceptions of space. Those who are hard
> wired for open, scarcely populated spaces will feel miserable in
> the most functional and efficient urban setting; while those hard
> wired for closed densely populated spaces will always be miserable
> in the country side, even if they lived in mansions. These
> preferences are like claustrophobia or agoraphobia - they cannot be
> rationally debated.
Are Americans "hard-wired" differently from the Dutch and Japanese?
Doug